Anyone similarly attacked on or about 1st week of december?..first time in 4 years of using avast home edition that a virus of some type slipped its way in to my computer…it first presented itself as one of those phony “Virus Scanner” programs that one could subscribe to with various windows appearing. Problem remaining is that it has rendered my avast antivirus program disabled, removed its icon from my tray, and worst thing is, it has stopped my computers accessing to the internet. I have never had anything ever happen like this and am really stumped as to my options in fixing this. ncb
Try scanning with
MBAM http://filehippo.com/download_malwarebytes_anti_malware/
update and run quick scan, click the button “remove selected” to quarantine anything found
SAS http://filehippo.com/download_superantispyware/
Are cookies really spyware and are they dangerous?
http://www.superantispyware.com/supportfaqdisplay.html?faq=26
come back and post scan logs here
I got hit with it earlier this month check this http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=52336.0
Joe
normcbarry, pay no attention to Joe S
Unfortunatly all anti virus applications suffer false positives when being effective against the latest prolific malware creators on the Internet today.
Follow Pondus’ advice.